New Benchmark Draft for Comments

[Oshyan]

Don't worry, this is all just feedback! I may tweak the final benchmark a little (or not), but in the end you'll need to fill out a form to submit your result(s), and then you'll be able to see all the results in a nice, sortable table.

- Oshyan

[bigben]

I think the guys in Research Services will still be happy with the performance. It's not necessarily designed to be the absolute fastest processing around, but it does provide much better performance in a platform that can be shared to researchers for projects they have without requiring them to invest a lot of money in computers. Given that, I wouldn't be surprised if there was some compromise on quantity vs quality.  I'll have to get them interested in letting me try their other flavour of VM which is for mostly CPU processing and high RAM usage. The one I'm using is designed more for providing GPU processors as well (They gave me 8 ) .... or I could ask them for the other 50% of the system resources for my VM

[pokoy]

Just ran the benchmark on a render node:

0:08:23s

Dual Xeon E56320 @2.53GHz (2 x 4-core, 8 threads with HT per CPU, 16 threads total).

[Hannes]

0.08:20 s
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40 GHz

[archonforest]

Here is my homie workstation:
Time: 00:09:02s
CPU: Dual quad Xeon E5530-2.4Ghz

[Urantia Jerry]

1:09:39
Intel Dual Core T4400 @ 2.20 GHz
8 GB Ram

22:45
Intel Quad Core i7-3537U @ 2.0 2.5 GHz
16 GB Ram

[RogueNZ]

7:12s

Intel i7-4790k @4.00GHz, 16GB Ram

[mindsap]

10:12s

Windows Vista Ultimate 64
(2) Xeon 5420 2.5 Ghz 16 GB Ram

[Dune]

9.55 with my i7 2600 (3.4GHz) and 16GB set at medium performance, but interestingly: 7.56 (~20% faster) when I change performance settings in bios to the highest level. Good to know for myself as well. Doesn't even make more noise 

[Kevin F]

6.35 on my i7 3930K (3.20GHz) with 32Gb ram

[fleetwood]

8:53 intel i7-4790 3.2GHZ
8:45 with subdivision cache moved up to 3600 and preallocate checked - woo-hoo !

[Oshyan]

9.55 with my i7 2600 (3.4GHz) and 16GB set at medium performance, but interestingly: 7.56 (~20% faster) when I change performance settings in bios to the highest level. Good to know for myself as well. Doesn't even make more noise 

Interesting! I wonder what that actually changes. Do you know? A performance difference like that would seem to me to only be possible from higher CPU speed, or perhaps less throttling due to heat or noise (i.e. prioritize performance over noise or power user concerns). If you could check CPU speeds in Windows with something like CPU-Z or Coretemp, it would be interesting to know that info.

- Oshyan

[jo]

My shiny new MacBook Pro:

0:07:25s
2.8 GHz quad core i7 (I7-4980HQ)

Oshyan, I've noticed that the benchmark has settings which exceed the Free version maximums. I wonder if it would be better if it could be run with the Free version.

Regards,

Jo

[engineer]

0:11:17

AMD FX 8-core cpu (8320, 3.5 GHz) 7 cores for Terragen
8 GB RAM
Win 7 prof., 64 bit

[Oshyan]

Oh good point Jo. I had intended that it would work on the free version but forgot to adjust final settings for that. Hmm. Well, looks like you'll all have to re-run the benchmark coming up soon then. *sigh*

Thanks for the input everyone! I'm closing this thread as the benchmark will now be finalized and published later this week.

- Oshyan